Divine Faith and Private Judgment in Newman and Aquinas
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Reinhard Hütter (Duke University) REGISTER HERE This master class is open to all graduate and undergraduate students, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. If you have any questions, please contact Mark Franzen. This three-hour seminar will focus on the one of Newman’s works, which he himself called “the best, not the most perfect, book I have done.” The Oxford University Sermons are the Anglican precursor and still the best introduction to the Catholic Newman’s masterwork, The Grammar of Assent. Sermons 10-15 constitute a precis of Newman’s mature theory of religious belief. In these sermons he...
Cosponsored by the Christian Legal Society Recent controversy over the HHS contraceptive mandate and the participation of faith-based organizations in federal grant programs has raised questions about religious freedom in the American legal and political systems. This discussion will consider the perceived conflict between civil rights and religious freedom and the roles of Congress, the judiciary, and administrative agencies for how religious freedom will be understood, applied, and protected in the future.
CLICK HERE for a recent article and photos from this event. Timothy Cardinal Dolan (Archbishop of New York) Robert Louis Wilken (University of Virginia) Join us for a reception in celebration of the newly released book A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope that Lies Within (CUA Press, 2015) by the late Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. This occasion will include a reception and remarks by His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan (Archbishop of New York) and Robert Louis Wilken (Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia). Finished by Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. nine days before his death, A Godly Humanismoffers an account of the Catholic intellectual...
Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J. (LCI Scholar-in Residence) Intended for current students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. REGISTER HERE The most consequential and controversial of his writings, St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans was written to instruct new Christians on the meaning of faith and discipleship. This course will present Paul’s teaching in Romans from the perspective of Roman Catholic doctrine, while engaging the more provocative arguments of the Church Fathers, the Schoolmen, the Reformers, and modern exegetes. Knowledge of Biblical Greek or familiarity with New Testament...
Regina M. Schwartz (Northwestern University) cosponsored by the Department of English The law presumes not only the right but the duty to punish: it does not ask whether it should punish, but how much, who, when, and how. In contrast, Christianity offers a different response to wrongdoing: Jesus engaged in a polemical attack on “the reciprocity code,” the assumption that good should be reciprocated with good and evil with evil. “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you” (Luke 6:27-28). How are we to begin to comprehend...
Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) REGISTER HERE REGISTRATION IS CURRENTLY FULL. If you are interested in attending, contact us and we will inform you if space becomes available. Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop Participants will be provided with a complimentary copy ofPseudo Dionysius: The Complete Works (Paulist Press). This master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. This one-time Seminar will discuss the writings of the mysterious Eastern monk (ca. 500 C.E.) who hid his identity under the name of the Athenian Dionysius of the Areopagus...
Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop “The well-known is what we have yet to learn.” T.S. Eliot What do we know of the prayer-life of St Thomas Aquinas? This lecture will be directly concerned with this question, and the answer may well come as a surprise to many people. Aquinas is still today almost exclusively regarded as an outstanding scholastic philosopher and theologian. But what is little known is that he was also a master of the spiritual life and a very considerable poet, perhaps even the greatest Latin poet of the Middle...
Timothy B. Noone (Catholic University of America) REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the Philosophy Department and the Medieval Studies Workshop This lecture will situate Bonaventure’s thought on education, philosophy, and the sciences into the context of the thirteenth century’s controversies regarding the place of philosophy in the universities and human life generally. While Bonaventure accepts the essential and irreplaceable role of philosophy and science in the progress of human knowledge and endorses the claim that they both perfect the human intellect, he insists that science and philosophy are in a hierarchy of knowledge that transcends them, culminating in the study of...
Timothy B. Noone (Catholic University of America) REGISTER HERE This master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Copies of the readings will be provided. This seminar will begin with crucial texts from the middle of the thirteenth century that set up the problem of the first known as that problem came to be discussed in the writings of Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and Duns Scotus. Thereafter, the seminar will examine the three authors mentioned on the issue of the first known and explore...
Saturday, February 6, 7:30pm St. Vincent DePaul Parish1010 West Webster Avenue Sunday, February 7, 2:00pm Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 South Woodlawn Avenue TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE $25 General/$10 Students In the sixteenth century, all roads led to Prague – or from it. The city had long been an incubator for rich musical activity and was an important stop for composers from neighboring Poland, Slovenia, and Germany, but also from farther afield. Schola Antiqua’s program brings a fascinating cross-section of sacred vocal polyphony from this musical crossroads together – and to life. In-concert commentary by Erika Supria Honisch, Assistant Professor of Music...
Randy Boyagoda (author of Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square) Cosponsored by First Things, the Chicago Leadership Forum, and Relevant Radio For all the political controversies that Fr. Richard John Neuhaus was involved in over his four decades in American public life, and these were many, he really understood his work in vocational terms. In other words, he understood his work foremost as the work of a man of God. It’s too simple to dismiss him (or admire him!) as a Republican in a Roman collar, as many of his later critics and fans did. Learn the full...
